The Asking You! Project

The Asking You! Project is about getting people with learning disabilities involved in the services they use.

Self-advocacy:

• encourages individuals to have a 'real say' about the services and support they want;
• recognises that people who use services are often expert consumers of those services;
• remembers that individuals know what they want; and
• is about allowing individuals to 'take charge' of their lives.

Involvement includes:

• going to a self-advocacy group;
• being on a management committee;
• interviewing and training workers;
• checking services;
• making information easy to understand;
• making choices about wants and needs;
• meeting new people;
• doing things that individuals did not think they could do; and
• making changes.

How is this done?

• Asking You! will work with self-advocacy groups and think of new ways to involve people with learning disabilities;
• we will try to make all information easy to understand by using plain words, pictures, symbols, photos and computers;
• we will tell others about what is being done.